Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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The Princess Beatrice Hospital.
The present accommodation is 81 beds. The hospital when completed will provide an
additional 57 beds, making a total of 138 beds, a nurses' home, a post-mortem and pathological
department, administration offices, etc.
The work performed at the hospital during 1930 was as follows:—
1,346 | |
237 | |
Total number of new out-patients | 13,040 |
„ „ „ out-patients' attendances | 62,791 |
Number of casualties | 5,812 |
Number of operations—major | 992 |
minor | 762-1,754 |
Dental cases | 2,197 |
Massage | 4,604 |
Light treatments | 1,298 |
Superficial therapy | 629 |
Patients X-rayed | 2,719 |
Total number of attendances | 1,452 |
Number of patients admitted to maternity ward | 313 |
The Princess Louise Kensington Hospital for Children.
This institution meets the medical and surgical needs of the children in North Kensington
and adjacent districts. In addition to a large out-patient department, there is an in-patient
department of 81 beds. The hospital is now a recognised training school for nurses.
There are X-ray, dental, ophthalmic and massage departments and a fully equipped operating
theatre.
The beds are allocated as follows:—
General medical | 39 | Skin | 1 |
General surgical | 20 | Observation ward | 4 |
Ear, nose and throat | 9 | Private ward | 2 |
Rheumatism | 4 | Nursing mothers' ward | 1 |
Eye | 1 | Total | 81 |
The following are figures of work done during 1936.
Total number of available beds on 31st December, 1936 | 81 |
Average number of available beds during year | 75.90 |
„ „ ,, patients resident daily throughout year | 65.85 |
Number of in-patients in the hospital at beginning of year | 60 |
„ „ ,, admitted during year | 1,524 |
„ „ „ in the hospital at end of year | 58 |
Total number of in-patients | 1,584 |
Average number of days each patient was resident | 15.79 |
Number of patients admitted and discharged during year who were resident for (i) only 1 day | 19 |
(ii) 2 and 3 days | 503 |
Total number of new out-patients | 6,075 |
Total number of out-patients' attendances | 42,974 |
Number of casualty patients among new out-patients | 1,598 |